Thank you natrona111!!! You are a Droid genius, and a modest one at that! I did exactly as you said, and there were my events on my calendar widget once again

)) Over the last 24 hours I read dozens of useless user comments about the Google calendar not syncing. None of them offered a simple solution to this problem. I'm so lucky & glad I found your post. Out of curiosity, why does clearing the data/cache make the sync work?